Amaryah Orenstein, president of GO Literary, represents a wide array of literary and commercial fiction and narrative nonfiction. She began her career at the Laura Gross Literary Agency and, prior to that, worked at various academic research foundations, editing books for Brandeis University Press. Originally from Montreal, she earned a BA at McGill before coming to the US to pursue graduate work in History. She received her MA from the Contemporary History Institute at Ohio University and her PhD from Brandeis.